Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 19/12/05, Peter Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Or maybe not, I dunno. The point being I don't think we should immediately >>write off >>any of the distributed SCMs without pondering how they might make a >>difference or be usable. > > > It would be very useful for people who aren't devs but only if they > have access to the repository. It would also be useful for devs to > have a standard way of publishing their testing/development portage > overlays. On the first point, would any of the alternative SCMs prove > to be better than CVS resource wise for providing anonymous access to > users? It might also be useful to facilitate non-devs contributing > patches to the tree - rather than posting files into bugzilla they > could point towards whereever they publish their current tree (or > changes), and developers can then work with their changes directly > instead of the bugzilla upload/download dance we do now.
I am using subversion for a year now, both for work, personal data, system administration (~/, /etc/ on most machines) and gentoo development (my overlay). Migrated from CVS that was used only for some code repositories. It felt like changing a Trabant for Subaru (substitute your fav. rally car)! Because of the ease-of-use and flexibility of access (ssh, https) I started using it everywhere (See good article "My life in subversiion"). As far as speed is concerned, it is comparable with CVS. Storage-space-wise, it takes about twice the space because a pristine copy of every file is held locally (this allows diffs, reverts, etc. to be done from the local copy, so the server is not contacted). Branching/merging is logical, svn:externals is very useful to import other repositories in place. Currently lacks owner:group and permisosons storage, but can be implemented as a wrapper. Compared to CVS, it is a clear winner in my opinion. And learnig curve is steep. Just my 2 yen. Kalin. -- |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |[ ______________________ ]| -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
